Kit foxes make themselves at home within Bakersfield city limits

Los Angeles Times / LATimes.com ^ | February 19, 2012, 6:38 p.m. | By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times

[thecodont]

Like lovers in Paris, San Joaquin kit foxes will always have Bakersfield.

The rare little foxes come out mostly at night. They find fabulous food everywhere: chunks of cheeseburger from dumpsters, shreds of taco on windblown wrappers. And the accommodations: What can beat a cozy den in the student quarter — specifically, beneath portable classrooms in the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District?

The 17,000-student district isn't crazy about the foxes, especially when about one-third of its 23 elementary and junior high schools have to deal with them on a regular basis. Administrators have offered a wildlife biologist $25,000 for a plan to manage the endangered species, which is literally, and uneasily, underfoot.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Being small and light, they probably have no more trouble getting up and into a dumpster than an alley cat would. They are not ground-bound like the domestic dog.

[Altariel]

“They find fabulous food everywhere: chunks of cheeseburger”

Oh, great, now every dog-owning Freeper is going to have to explain to their dogs why kit foxes get cheeseburgers and they don’t.

Thanks a lot!

:-)

[ransomnote]

Ah yes. The kit fox. Some assembly required...

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LOL!

[knarf]

It was a Kit Fox on the cover of KitPlanes in a doctor's office that addicted me to wanting my own plane.

RANS still heads the list, IMO.

[Joe Boucher]

RV6A here,
Kit fox is a nice little platform for low and slow.
One of my neighbors has one.
What part of south Calif do you fly out of?

[goat granny]

The city would be smart to catch them and give them rabies shots and then let them go....fox and coons are big carriers of rabies...

[left that other site]

Where Are the Foxes?

ML/LTOS
(El Kabong)

[jocon307]

It is quite cute, although not so beautiful as a regular fox.

[mamelukesabre]

That ridiculous nomenclature means nothing. They’ve been arguing and changing it ever since the day it was invented. The fact remains that a house cat is the result of selective breeding of an african wild cat. And a dog is the result of selective breeding of a tibetan wolf. Primarily. Regional variations are due in part to admixing local wild cat and local wolf blood into the domesticated gene pool of that region. The natural form of the house cat is not extinct and the natural form of the dog is not extinct. So far.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If modern biology nomenclature practice is behind the curve on the house cat, it should soon catch up if there is anything to the theory. Felis catus would become something like Felis sylvestris catus. Scientists of the past who classified based on morphology may have made mistakes, but DNA tells no lies, and there is a general push in biology to rationalize genera and species based on DNA.

[Niteflyr]

RV6A here, Kit fox is a nice little platform for low and slow. One of my neighbors has one. What part of south Calif do you fly out of?

Van's are nice metal airplanes...

My home airport is California City Muni (L-71) :-)

My biz there

[Joe Boucher]

fl37 is where I live,
private airpark.
Lot of real fine planes here, Staggerwing, P-51, t-38, and a guy even has a dc3 on floats.
Me? just have lots of fun with the RV6A.
Wish you were closer as I would use you as a mechanic.

[Joe Boucher]

fl37 is where I live,
private airpark.
Lot of real fine planes here, Staggerwing, P-51, t-38, and a guy even has a dc3 on floats.
Me? just have lots of fun with the RV6A.
Wish you were closer as I would use you as a mechanic.

[Niteflyr]

fl37 is where I live, private airpark. Lot of real fine planes here, Staggerwing, P-51, t-38, and a guy even has a dc3 on floats. Me? just have lots of fun with the RV6A. Wish you were closer as I would use you as a mechanic.

I'll look it up..:o) I have a buddy with a 195 also who lives on Mallard's Landing in GA. He loves DC-3's and would really go nuts for one on floats...:op

[Niteflyr]

fl37 is where I live, private airpark. Lot of real fine planes here, Staggerwing, P-51, t-38, and a guy even has a dc3 on floats. Me? just have lots of fun with the RV6A. Wish you were closer as I would use you as a mechanic.

I'll look it up..:o) I have a buddy with a 195 also who lives on Mallard's Landing in GA. He loves DC-3's and would really go nuts for one on floats...:op